NCAHF Newsletter articles from July 1993

NCAHF Newsletter archives from July 1993

Shark cartilage demand said decimating wildlife.
July 1, 1993... According to a report from Costa Rica, the demand for shark cartilage, the dubious cancer remedy promoted on CBS's 60 Minutes in late February, has increased production more than 7-fold at Tecnologica del Tiburon, the processing plant at...

MXM Essential Formulas, Inc. (questionable marketing of anti-cancer and vitamin supplements)
July 1, 1993... A 6-page flyer titled An Opportunity for Physicians was distributed to some local physicians(*) in Northeast Ohio last autumn. The flyer promotes a questionable multilevel marketing scheme for anti-cancer and other vitamin supplements sold by...

Therapeutic Claims in Multiple Sclerosis, 3d ed.
July 1, 1993... Therapeutic Claims in Multiple Sclerosis 3rd ed. (1992) is a model resource that both informs and insulates patients against quackery. The book presents in brief, understandable terms the structure and function of the central nervous system...

Quackery in drug ads.
July 1, 1993... After addressing a group of pharmaceutical industry scientists on quackery, my host stated that his company's marketing staff needed to hear my presentation because many of their practices fit the criteria of quackery. A recent report verifies...

Gaston Naessens' 714-X. (therapeutic agent)
July 1, 1993... 714-X is a substance produced in Quebec by Gaston Naessens. It has been analyzed by the Canadian Health Protection Branch and found to contain a mixture of camphor, ammonium chloride and nitrate, sodium chloride, ethanol and water. Approval for...

Child abuse stemmed from DC's medical incompetence. (doctor of chiropractic, William Keith)
July 1, 1993... We've been following a sad and bizarre court case at San Jose, California, in which a father is accused of beating his 11-year-old son with a belt, stick and wooden spoon because the boy refused to eat his own vomit! The father, 47-yr-old...

Mystical Diets.
July 1, 1993... Jack Raso, MS, RD, presents Mystical Diets (Prometheus, 1993, 291 pp) which exposes paranormal, spiritual, and occult nutrition beliefs and practices. Chapter one "From believer to skeptic: my personal odyssey" is worth the price of the book as...